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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: educational genocide and immigrant testing
-----Original Message----- From: jhorn@monmouth.edu To: arn-l@interversity.org Sent: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 8:15 AM Subject: [arn-l] educational genocide and immigrant testing Educators are using adjectives like "catastrophic" and nouns like "torture" to describe a new English testing requirement affecting immigrant students.... "It's catastrophic for the self-esteem of a child who has to sit and endure a test like this," said Eileen Santiago, principal of Thomas A. Edison Community School in Port Chester. "It's equivalent to educational genocide." _______________________________________________________ Educators who invoke genocide in hassles over reading tests disgrace themselves and the profession. Art ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.
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